I am grateful both to my student Eugenia Geisel and my friends at Steel Magnificat for reminding me that today is what the Latin Church calls the Feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa. One of my earliest posts on this blog was about how the Black Madonna loved me into Eastern Catholicism. Eugenia also has a guest blog on her. I didn’t feel that I had much more to say at the moment about her, but I’ve been seeing many wonderful... Read more
This is the third in a series of posts entitled Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints by Eugenia Geisel for Eastern Catholic Person on her experience of encountering the saints in Kraków as part of the ordinary supernatural during World Youth Day. There are two previous posts, one on the Black Madonna and a second on Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko. Eugenia is an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Korean and minoring in Comparative Religion and Russian and Slavic Literatures; she... Read more
This is my second post in the Patheos Catholic forum ‘Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents.’ My first post, which is equally as jumbled and full of free associations, was on the Most Holy Theotokos. Because I am still searching for clarity, I do not expect that this will be my last contribution to this forum. I just moved to Chicago. My first Eastern Catholic series of events came soon afterward, as I attended the funeral services for Bishop Richard (Seminack).... Read more
This is the first post on my blog to mention the forum ‘Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents’ on Patheos Catholic. I have many thoughts on the subject, some more jumbled than others. Therefore, this certainly will not be my last word on catholicity and the awkwardness of thinking about it in terms of the politics of identity. My last post was a jumbled reflection that started with Christ’s salvation and then jumped to the Protection of the Theotokos even though that feast isn’t for... Read more
The Gospel in Wednesday’s lectionary readings on the New Calendar is a familiar story; the fact that it is now Friday and I am blogging about Wednesday should be some indication of how much has been on my plate since I last posted. St Mark the Evangelist tells us that Jesus tells the disciples to go to the other side of the lake. The disciples get into a boat. While Jesus is asleep, a storm more powerful than anything these... Read more
On Byzantine internet, there is an appeal that is going around that is well worth supporting whether or not you are Byzantine. It’s a fundraising appeal from some monks at Holy Resurrection Monastery in St Nazianz, Wisconsin. The long and short of it is that they’d like to – once and for all – burn their mortgage, and because of that, you should give something to them. I got in touch with Abouna Moses, the chef at Holy Resurrection Monastery, to... Read more
As the Feast of the Dormition wraps up, I feel like I have some explaining to do about why I as an Eastern Catholic Person have been silent all day. For one, my colleagues at Patheos Catholic have had some excellent posts: Eating Peaches on the Theotokos’s bodily resurrection, Matthew Tan on Anglican-Catholic agreement about the Dormition, and Steel Magnificat on the angel dubbed ‘Holy Angel None-of-Your Business’ in the Dormition icon. Our friend Morphodoxing also has a brilliantly bodily reflection on... Read more
This is the second in a series of posts entitled Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints by Eugenia Geisel for Eastern Catholic Person on her experience of encountering the saints in Kraków as part of the ordinary supernatural during World Youth Day. The first post, on the Black Madonna, can be found here. Eugenia is an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Korean and minoring in Comparative Religion and Russian and Slavic Literatures; she took my... Read more
I knew it. The real World Youth Day reflections are finally coming out. While World Youth Day was happening, I wrote that I would not be able to ‘chase this ambulance’ because I’d have to write about it over the weeks and perhaps months afterward. I also said that the ‘immediacy’ of the whole thing via social media had to be called into question because sometimes electronic devices don’t have data, or worse, run out of batteries. After all, I... Read more
This is the first in a series of posts entitled Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints by Eugenia Geisel for Eastern Catholic Person on her experience of encountering the saints in Kraków as part of the ordinary supernatural during World Youth Day. Eugenia is an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in Korean and minoring in Comparative Religion and Russian and Slavic Literatures; she took my course on Trans-Pacific Christianities, a class to which I recently... Read more
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